The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-06
THE BREAKFAST TABLE.

PHIL D. ARMoUR'S son, who is in the fresh
man class at Yale. receives an allowance Of 800
per week from his father
BROOKLYN Eagle: lis your father Chris
tiau," asked the new minister. mo" replied
the boy, "he sings in the choir.
A QUEBEC dispatch says: John c. Emo has
purchased the residence at Lake BEAUFORT that
he occupied last summer for $4,000
Boston Bulletin: 1t is sad to see family relics
sold at auction, but the most painful thing
der the hammer is generally your thumb nail.
Mrs SACHS, the st. Louis cook who threw
the pancake at Mrs Cleveland, is now on exni-
bition in dime museum. From feeding stom-
osity.
T. HARRISON GARRETT, of Baltimore. owns a
"toddy plant" an Oriental growth about eight
feet high. During the sap season. which lasts
nearly two months, a quart Of excellent toddy
can be drawn twice day.
Miss SELwYN. it is said. will shortly give to
the world the letters addressed 70 her from time
to time by Colonel Hughes Hal!et. with a view
of cleansing herself from the imputation of hav-
ing been the temptress instead of the tempted.
CHICAGO Tribune 'Wny, Miss Howjames,'
said the Chicago girl. 'you don't mean that it is
all over between you and Mr. Grmshaw2"
what l have told you" replied the Boston
young lady haughtily, sis the-the undraped
actuality."
er in the management of the famous Delmonco
restaurant in New York, is quietly wedding out
the gam lers and other loud-voced objection
ables who once threatened to drive his other
patrons away.
In autograph album Suzanne Brodan
wrote: ''There is nothing more difficult for a
woman than to make up her mind to enter into
the thirties." And underneath it Aimee Dece-
lee said: Eyes, there is. Making up her mind
to get out of the thirties.'
'No DESTITUTE person need pass this place
hungry" is the sign in front Of the ST. Bouface
Hotel in Westchester township. New York. The
sign has been out thirty years, and the pledge
has been nobiy kept by Rudolph Fitzpatrick,
the warm-hearted landlord.
SoMERvILLE Journal The man who can hang
pictures under his wife's supervision for an
hour and keep his temper does not want to be
an angel. He is one already, although he may
not have a pair of large. tapping, white wings
behind his shoulder blades
HOWARD LEE is the youngest ohiceholder in
the United States. He has a place in the Pen
sion Office. ard earns 1920 a year for himself
and his mother. although he will not be twelve
years old till next spring. He was appointed by
President Cleveland's express order.
COURSE in the Semitic languages just opened
at the University of Pennsylvania has among its
fessor Harper, of Yale; Professor Brown, of
New York: and Professor Haupt of Baltimore,
with Professors Jastrow, Peters and Heilprecht
AN irreverent gossiper says that Justice Field,
of the United States Supreme Court, is not less
imposing when seated than when upright His
features large and finely chiseled and his
towering forehead is carried up q story higher
by the absence of hair the summit Of his
skull. He ls not too bald but just bald enough.
Boston Transcript: 80 I'm almost tired to
death!' why. where have you been?" ''Been into
trying to match black silk. They've
got the saucest girls there / ever saw" II know
It. THE girl that waited upon me almost set me
SO patient, you know. But she couldn't fool me-
l know we'll enough she was mad enough inside
the deceitful creature l wonder why Lutte
string has such people in his store"
THOMAS STEVENS, the bicycle Workbench
cler. writes thus about the pretty waiter girls
IN the Japanese hotels: "Upon ones arrival
one of the pretty Mattresses approaches with no
end OF smiles, and bows. and tokens of welcome
bearing a little lacquered tray with tea set
about the size Of those American little girl
plays at housekeeping with: AS she presents it
she kneeIs and bows her forehead to the floor.
This latter performance is repeated upon the
ceipt of every order, and also again in token of
llwishes. happy dreams, etc, upon retiring
In the morning. when you arc ready to depart,
the polite landlord seems to actually apologize
for the necessity Of making oven his very mod
est charges
You may talk about the seasons
You may give a dozen reasons
For ranking some especial season high.
But it's useless to deny it,
And you might well not try it
The jolly seasons that of pumpkin pie.
Boston Record.
BREArHEs man with soul so dead,
Who unto his wife hath said:
1.-The seasons come, alas, alack!
think YOU need sealskin sack"
If such man full well you know, go mark him.
Waterloo Observer.
A DRUMMERS MOTTO.
If when some task you press
And meet rebuff in what you seek,
Remember, then, the Scriptures bless
Whom being slapped shows still more cheek.
Life.